Posted on 07/16/2012 3:44:48 PM PDT by GSWarrior
What a fool I was.
In 1986, I spent a week in State College, Pa., researching a 10-page Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year piece on Joe Paterno.
It was supposed to be a secret, but one night the phone in my hotel room rang. It was a Penn State professor, calling out of the blue.
"Are you here to take part in hagiography?" he said.
"What's hagiography?" I asked.
"The study of saints," he said. "You're going to be just like the rest, aren't you? You're going to make Paterno out to be a saint. You don't know him. He'll do anything to win. What you media are doing is dangerous."
Jealous egghead, I figured.
What an idiot I was.
Twenty-five years later, when former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused of a 15-year reign of pedophilia on young boys, I thought Paterno was too old and too addled to understand, too grandfatherly and Catholic to get that Sandusky was committing grisly crimes using Paterno's own football program as bait.
But I was wrong. Paterno knew. He knew all about it. He'd known for years. He knew and he followed it vigilantly.
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That’s gonna leave a mark ....
It raises the question of WHY? I strongly suspect that the fear of liberal PC was the base reason this pervy fag was allowed to prey on children.
Lord, how I hate PC and Libs...
It might be a first step for the school to get its values and priorities in order.
the next biggest crime is that every tale about men having sex with boys - chruch, boy scouts, football, little league etc. etc never includes homosexual with the words molestor. How many stories about ruined lives are about what was done to little girls or wives - not as many as the Sandusky, Philly Bishop, Dallas and on and on...homosexuals playing with their own sex - usually children.
I feel so bad for the victims and their families. Far less so, but still sorry, for the many HONORABLE people affiliated with Penn State who are going to feel tarred by this scandal for years and years. What a horror.
Well stated.
The more I read about this and the more I learn about the whole affair the more I agree with the idea that a 2-year death penalty on the football program is warranted. Frankly Paterno is lucky he passed away, its pretty clear from the Freeh report that he would be facing civil charges himself, if not criminal.
I hope and pray that the children can one day find some sort of equilibrium in their lives; they deserve a better life than Paterno did.
The good citizens in the surrounding communities should rent bulldozers and raze this monument to child exploitation, starting with the offensive JoePa sculpture, moving on to the showers, locker rooms, stadium, and finish up with the administration building.
And I'm not kidding. Maybe it will offer motivation to the next organization that wants to run interference for these defective beings. Leave our kids alone...or else.
But the monument is guarded. Unlike the boys who were homosexually abused.
I like your idea
Yeah, that's what I said
Child Sacrifice
Great civilizations and sports dynastys they've all been built on
Child Sacrifice
And you know you can't bake a cherry pie without...uh...uh, well you know.
Look, you want to keep the cash register ringing?
Want to keep your job?
Then just STFU!
That's laughable.
I personally think to focus on the homosexual aspect of child exploitation does a horrible disservice to all the young females whose lives are destroyed by molestation.
The one undeniable fact is it's overwhelmingly men who are the molesters. The sex of the victims is secondary to the innocence stolen from them.
Perhaps it's time to learn just how motivated those guards really are. I'll bet they'll figure a statue ain't worth serious personal injury.
2 year?!?!!?
How about 10? They have to restart from scratch - anybody involved with the program should be forced to move on for lack of moral courage.
I don't think it was just Paterno protecting Sandusky. You could easily flip it around, and say that Paterno would be seen as a hero for outing Sandusky and protecting Penn State - so why didn't he? Well, usually people who get away with things even though other know about it rely on a basic tool: blackmail.
Sandusky was apparently making boys available to other powerful people, political and wealthy people. I wish I could quote a refernce, but I don't know where I read this. I'm sure it's available with a little research. Anyway, if that's true, then that list of people would be an enormously powerful weapon Sandusky could use againt Penn State and Paterno to shut up about it. Then, being - by definition - a sick f***, Sandusky continued on for years in front of everyone.
This doesn't excuse Paterno, but it makes the dynamics more understandable. Sandusky must have had something more than just being a coach at PA t hold over Paterno, and I believe this was it.
And it also means the creatures on Sandusky's list are still at large.
I’ve heard the same—I believe it was initially said by a local radio personality who had a lot of inside sources. As I remember, the youth charity was suupplying boys to certain influential people. This is conjecture, but it makes a lot of sense when you look at the whole picture—obviously there were a lot of people who just didn’t view this activity as that much of a big deal.
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No what I said was that the dozens of cases that end up in high profile court cases or huge settlements are 90% men on boys. Do men, school teachers or coaches take advantage of girls - does the sun rise in the east? MY point is that wanting sex between a man and a “woman” is that topic - heterosexual sex. When it is a man with a boy the media calls it molestor not homosexual.
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